Disgraceland Podcast

OhTheWater · Mar 14, 2018

Real hype about this new music based true crime podcast I just got into called "Disgraceland". Here's the blurb from the site:

Disgraceland is a true crime podcast about musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly. Thirty minute episodes that trace the most insane criminal stories surrounding our most interesting and infamous pop stars.

Disgraceland is released on bi-weekly schedule with a few exceptions.

Disgraceland is for lovers of true crime. And Disgraceland is for music lovers.

Did Jerry Lee Lewis get away with murdering his fifth wife?

Did Beck’s Church of Scientology drive his friends to commit suicide?

Were Tay-K 47’s 100 million downloads aided and abetted by a murder charge and a nationwide manhunt?

Disgraceland explores these stories and more and attempts to reckon the heinous acts committed by these musicians with our love for the amazing music they create, which is particularly relevant in the here and now.

However, Disgraceland doesn’t tell these stories in a stodgy, self righteous way. These stories are too wild for that. Disgraceland is a bi-weekly adult storytelling podcast. Not “sit around the campfire” storytelling. More like “slightly buzzed guy at the end of the bar whose seen some shit” storytelling.

Disgraceland is a labor of love. It is produced independently. It began in a basement and graduated to a former massage parlor of ill repute, where it remains, fittingly.

Rocka Rolla.

30 Minute episodes. I've listened to the first two so far, very entertaining. Here's the schedule:

Season 1 Release Schedule and Episode Guide
Disgraceland will launch just in time for Valentine’s Day with three episodes supporting the theme of, “Love Kills” with stories about how the romantic entanglement of rocks stars — Jerry Lee Lewis, Sid Vicious and Sam Cooke — either brought about their own demise or the demise of their loved ones.

Jerry Lee Lewis: The Killer and Getting Away With Murder
Release Date 2.13.18
The night before, Jerry Lee Lewis’ 5th wife died, she made a phone call to her Mom. She told her that she was thinking of leaving the rock and roll pioneer, but that he wouldn’t let her. Then, she made a second call — this one to the sister of her high-school sweetheart, making plans for the sister to come take her away from Jerry Lee later that month. Then… in mid-sentence the phone went dead. The next day, Mrs. Jerry Lee Lewis was found dead. Neatly placed on top of a perfectly made bed in the newlywed couple’s guest room. Despite the bruises on her body, the blood under her fingernails, the scratches on her husband’s hands, and the mountain of other physical and anecdotal evidence, the death was ruled an accident. Did Jerry Lee Lewis kill his wife and get away with murder? Click here to download zip with unreleased version of this episode — because you’re so, damn special…

Sid Vicious: Love Kills… Even a Mother’s Love
Release Date 2.20.18
It’s long been believed that punk rock icon, Sid Vicious died of a heroin overdose. That is true. However, the story goes that he od’d after injecting himself with a potent does of smack but new evidence suggests that is overly affectionate and increasingly dependent mum gave him a hotshot in a final, maternal act of mercy.

Sam Cooke: An Insatiable Libido and a Justifiable Homicide
Release Date: 3.6.18
Sam Cooke was a lot of things: soul superstar, civil rights champion, whip smart entrepreneur but he was also a serial womanizer with an unbridled libido. On December 11, 1964, Sam Cooke, was shot to death by Bertha Lee Franklin, manager of the Hacienda Motel in Los Angeles, CA. Franklin killed Cooke in what was ruled by the courts to be a justifiable homicide due to Cooke’s unruly, drunken behavior that involved him holding another women captive in his hotel room and allegedly raping her earlier in the evening. With full appreciation of the MeToo moment we are currently all living through as a culture, Disgraceland, with fresh eyes, looks into this crime and the successful effort by Sam Cooke’s family and powerful music industry colleagues to salvage his legacy and reputation by personally discrediting his victim.

Norwegian Black Metal: Satanic Rebellion, Murder and Worse
Release Date: 3.20.18
Never has there been a more extreme form of musical rebellion than Norwegian Black Metal. The genre’s founding band, Mayhem, its sister act, Burzum and supporting cast of musicians with names like, Necrobutcher, Hellhammer and Dead horrified Norway in the early nineties with supreme acts of terror, satanic ritualism, murder, arson and cannibalism. One band member killed himself. Another ate his brains and used a photo of his corpse for an album cover. Other musicians set fire to 30 plus churches. Finally, Varg Vikernes, leader of the band, Burzum murdered, Euronymous, leader of the band, Mayhem for “not being evil enough”. By the time the ashes settled and the corpse paint chipped away, numerous band members would be dead or in jail, convicted of arson and or murder… and a new generation of young metalheads would find their way to satanism through blast beats and dead notes.

Beck: The Golden Suicides and His Church of Scientology
Release Date: 4.3.18
Beck’s album Sea Change was produced during the renowned musician’s re-entry into the world of Scientology. Five years after its release, the album’s cover artist, Jeremy Blake walked into the ocean off of Rockaway Beach, and never came back. His suicide came a week after his girlfriend’s. A tragic love story? Or was there some truth to their claims that they were being relentlessly harassed by the Church of Scientology?

Van Morrison: Astral Weeks, Movement and Murder
Release Date: 4.17.18
In 1968, Van Morrison was hiding out from the New York City mafia in Cambridge, Massachusetts and desperately trying to move his career into its next phase. One year later, his guitar player would wind up mysteriously murdered. This episode sources the forthcoming Penguin RANDOM HOUSE Van Morrison biography, Astral Weeks, which will be released on 3.15.18.

Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes: Hit Me Again and I’ll Burn Your House Down
Release Date: 5.1.18
TLC’s Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes was known as “the crazy one”. She did, after all, burn down her NFL playing boyfriend, Andre Rison’s mansion. But given the fact that it was done after what was then one of many domestic assaults, we choose to view Left Eye as a bad ass… and not the crazy one. This episode digs into what really happened that night, who Lisa Lopes really was as a person and the details surrounding her own premature death.

The Rolling Stones: Sleeping With the First Lady and Trafficking Heroin
Release Date: 5.15.18
In the seventies, the world regarded The Rolling Stones as an insular band of hedonistic and glamorous pansexual junkies. But all of the trouble they’d stirred up during the sixties and early seventies would be dwarfed by the mess they would cause in Canada in 1977. Up until that point Keith’s constitution, the band’s money and collective luck had been enough to fend off destruction, but the scandal they embroiled themselves in touched the highest levels of government, threatened to destroy the band and their so-far indestructible guitar player, Keith Richards.

Tay-K 47: A Nationwide Manhunt and Art Imitating Life
Release Date: 5.29.18
The Arlington, Texas rapper was involved in two killings by the time he was seventeen. Arrested on murder charges and placed under house arrest until hearings were to take place, Tay-K 47 sawed off his ankle bracelet and announced to the world via Twitter that he was going out on the run. He made it from Texas all the way to New Jersey where he recorded his most infamous song, “The Race”, detailing his time on the lam. The song’s lyrics and video blurred real life and art and quickly went viral garnering over 100 million downloads. It also worked as a set of clues for authorities to use to piece together the young fugitive’s whereabouts. The viral nature of the song and video, the ensuing twitter phenomenon and infamy surrounding the young fugitive also caused tipsters to come out in droves and eventually led to Tay-K’s arrest.

Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G.: The Media Did It
Release Date: 6.12.18
Who killed Tupac and Biggie? This episode looks at the deaths of both rap superstars, the east coast/west coast beef and examines how culpable the sensationalizing media was in the deaths of both artists.

Michael Alig: If a Club Kid Kills, Stuffs The Body In a Box and Tells The World About It, Will Anybody Listen?
Release Date: 6.19.18
In March 1996, “King Of The Club Kids”, promoter Michael Alig, after appearing on TV’s Geraldo and on the cover of New York magazine, bashed his friend and DJ, Angel Melendez in the head with a hammer. Alig then poured Drano into Angel’s mouth and duct taped it shut. He then dismembered his body and threw it into the Hudson River. Three years ago he was released from prison. Wait… What?

James Brown: Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag… of Meth
Release Date: 6.26.18
What happens when the hardest working man in show business takes a break? Idle hands are indeed the devil’s workshop. This episode will detail James Brown’s arrest and jail sentencing for drugs, firearms and the high speed chase he led cops on an insane jaunt through the South in the late eighties.

Check it out! I'm obviously hype for the Van Morrison episode.

OhTheWater · Mar 20, 2018

The Sam Cooke ep is certainly thought provoking

OhTheWater · Mar 20, 2018

Also Black Metal ep out today!

jjnunn118 · Mar 20, 2018

Woah this sounds super interesting, especially the black metal episode. Gonna have to get into this

OhTheWater · Mar 20, 2018

My only complaint is that some of them could go into more detail. Wish they were a little longer

suicidesaints · Mar 20, 2018

A buddy of mine is working on a documentary that covers similar stuff. Deaths of musicians that were covered up or lied about. If he ever finishes it, I'll definitely post about it here.

Really interested to check this out.

OhTheWater · Apr 3, 2018

Hmmm. Up until a few days ago it was supposed to be the Beck episode. Now all posts about it are gone and the Van episode is up. Odd

OhTheWater · Apr 3, 2018

Saw him refer to the Beck ep as a “lost episode”. That’s pretty creepy, I assume Scientology went after him?

suicidesaints · Apr 3, 2018

Listened to the black metal episode and enjoyed it. I need to catch up on the others.

OhTheWater · Jun 13, 2018

Catching up. The Tay K one is very interesting so far

OhTheWater · Jul 1, 2020

Fell off this hard, just downloaded a bunch that I'm interested in

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